One of Europe’s largest sites used to be Nama owned

London is no stranger to massive construction projects, but the Battersea Power Station venture must surely rank as the most ambitious of recent times.

In recent weeks, the restoration of the building’s four iconic chimneys was completed, the first phase of a programme that will see the structure brought back into use after more than 30 years. The original chimneys, dating from the 1930s, had to be painstakingly deconstructed and replaced with exact replicas that required over 25,000 wheelbarrows of concrete and two years of work to complete.

The vast structure, the largest brick building in Europe, has planning permission for over 8.5 million sq ft, split approximately evenly between commercial and residential use.